But don’t expect any thrillers
by the Labour shadow cabinet are earnest, virtuous and well-meaning. They tackle such uncomfortable topics as sexism, racism and Peterborough. Their authors travel to places like Wigan and Halifax, and feel sad in them. In reviews these books have been garlanded with such adjectives as “much-needed” and “powerful”. Almost all of them, in other words, are heroically boring.
The library offered by Labour’s shadow cabinet is similarly revealing. For one thing, these books tend to focus more on the problematic present than the past. For another, all are notably low on lovely angels.
But overall these books are not what you would call rollicking. In 1943 George Orwell wrote an essay titled: “Can Socialists be Happy?” No one doubts that Tories can be happy, or have fun. Open a book by or about Tories and you might find Alan Clark having fun with Thatcher’s ankles ; or David Cameron having fun with the perfume of the diarist, Sasha Swire ; or Boris Johnson having fun with more or less everyone.
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